biocViews Categories

biocViews categories provide a taxonomy for all Bioconductor packages. They are supplied in a comma-separated list in the R package DESCRIPTION file. For example, here is a snippet of a DESCRIPTION file:

limma/DESCRIPTION:

biocViews: Microarray, OneChannel, TwoChannel, DataImport, QualityControl, Preprocessing, Bioinformatics, DifferentialExpression, MultipleComparisons, TimeCourse

Taxonomy for Software Packages

Annotation

GO

Pathways

ProprietaryPlatforms

ReportWriting

AssayDomains

aCGH

CellBasedAssays

ChIPchip

CopyNumberVariants

CpGIsland

DifferentialExpression

DNAMethylation

ExonArray

GeneExpression

GeneticVariability

SNP

Transcription

AssayTechnologies

Microarray

OneChannel

TwoChannel

MultiChannel

MicrotitrePlateAssay

MassSpectrometry

SAGE

FlowCytometry

Sequencing

HighThroughputSequencing

ChIPseq

RNAseq

BiologicalDomains

CellBiology

Genetics

Proteomics

Infrastructure

DataImport

DataRepresentation

GraphsAndNetworks

GUI

Visualization

Bioinformatics

Clustering

Classification

MultipleComparisons

Preprocessing

QualityControl

SequenceMatching

TimeCourse

Taxonomy for ExperimentData Packages

Cancer

Breast

Colon

Kidney

Leukemia

Lung

Ovarian

Prostate

CGH

ChIPchipData

ChIPseqData

EColiData

FlowCytData

HapMap

HighThroughputSequencingData

HIV

Proteome

QualityAndTesting

RNAseqData

SpikeIns

StemCells

Yeast